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bilger Name Meaning and History

German: nickname for someone who had been on a pilgrimage, from Middle High German bilgerim ‘pilgrim’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bilger Families in the US in 1920
Number of bilger families
 60-117
 21-59
 1-20
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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